Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna
@gzf.bsky.social
Data Protection Geek. Co-author of the big GDPR OUP Commentary🇷🇴🇪🇺🇺🇸 US-based, former Brussels bubbler. Writes about data protection law and policy, AI governance through a Global lens (& sometimes democracy)
www.pdpecho.com
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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About one in three teen users of AI chatbots report feeling uncomfortable with something an AI chatbot has included in an output. To the children and teens using them, these technologies are not an experiment, even if companies still treat them like one.
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
About one in three teen users of AI chatbots report feeling uncomfortable with something an AI chatbot has included in an output. To the children and teens using them, these technologies are not an experiment, even if companies still treat them like one.
Tonight I’ve experienced live for the first time Carmina Burana, with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra #DSO. I’ve listened to parts of it many times recorded. But live, it was therapeutic. It atuned to all neural networks of this mind 😅 Human sensitivity will never be replaced by artificial anything.
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Tonight I’ve experienced live for the first time Carmina Burana, with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra #DSO. I’ve listened to parts of it many times recorded. But live, it was therapeutic. It atuned to all neural networks of this mind 😅 Human sensitivity will never be replaced by artificial anything.
Yes, I have read the leaked GDPR Omnibus. Yes, if unleashed as is, it will be an earthquake for EU data protection law (with 2 or 3 of the deep cuts). Which, ironically, would leave most countries that imported the GDPR with a stronger data protection regime than the GDPR.
a girl in a school uniform is saying ironic isn 't it
ALT: a girl in a school uniform is saying ironic isn 't it
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Yes, I have read the leaked GDPR Omnibus. Yes, if unleashed as is, it will be an earthquake for EU data protection law (with 2 or 3 of the deep cuts). Which, ironically, would leave most countries that imported the GDPR with a stronger data protection regime than the GDPR.
Sooo last night I actually ordered Christmas gifts for some family members *already* (I never do this so early), but I came across Cognitive Surplus and loved the geekery 🥰
cognitive-surplus.com
cognitive-surplus.com
Cognitive Surplus | Science Stationery, Lifestyle & Gift Shop
Cognitive Surplus makes sustainable science-inspired stationery, gifts, and lifestlye goods. Shop online or in-store for black paper notebooks, science t-shirts, whiskey glasses, wine glasses, tote ba...
cognitive-surplus.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sooo last night I actually ordered Christmas gifts for some family members *already* (I never do this so early), but I came across Cognitive Surplus and loved the geekery 🥰
cognitive-surplus.com
cognitive-surplus.com
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BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!
November 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!
👀 The digital #Omnibus is all the buzz around Brussels.
See below a brief history of how the Brussels Privacy Symposium, over the past years, was the bellwether for the need to make the new EU digital laws work better by themselves and with each other ⬇️
brusselsprivacyhub.com/untangling-t...
See below a brief history of how the Brussels Privacy Symposium, over the past years, was the bellwether for the need to make the new EU digital laws work better by themselves and with each other ⬇️
brusselsprivacyhub.com/untangling-t...
Untangling the digital laws’ knot: Lessons from the Brussels Privacy Symposium - Brussels Privacy Hub
brusselsprivacyhub.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 PM
👀 The digital #Omnibus is all the buzz around Brussels.
See below a brief history of how the Brussels Privacy Symposium, over the past years, was the bellwether for the need to make the new EU digital laws work better by themselves and with each other ⬇️
brusselsprivacyhub.com/untangling-t...
See below a brief history of how the Brussels Privacy Symposium, over the past years, was the bellwether for the need to make the new EU digital laws work better by themselves and with each other ⬇️
brusselsprivacyhub.com/untangling-t...
NEW guest post on the @futureofprivacy.bsky.social blog:
“Rethinking personal data: the CJEU’s contextual turn in EDPS v SRB”, by Cedric Burton.
This is one of the most consequential judgments of the decade in EU data protection.
fpf.org/blog/rethink...
“Rethinking personal data: the CJEU’s contextual turn in EDPS v SRB”, by Cedric Burton.
This is one of the most consequential judgments of the decade in EU data protection.
fpf.org/blog/rethink...
Rethinking Personal Data: The CJEU’s Contextual Turn in EDPS vs. SRB
Guest post by Cédric Burton, Partner at Wilson Sonsini Brussels, examining the CJEU’s EDPS v SRB ruling on personal data, pseudonymization, and controller obligations under EU data protection law.
fpf.org
November 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
NEW guest post on the @futureofprivacy.bsky.social blog:
“Rethinking personal data: the CJEU’s contextual turn in EDPS v SRB”, by Cedric Burton.
This is one of the most consequential judgments of the decade in EU data protection.
fpf.org/blog/rethink...
“Rethinking personal data: the CJEU’s contextual turn in EDPS v SRB”, by Cedric Burton.
This is one of the most consequential judgments of the decade in EU data protection.
fpf.org/blog/rethink...
Oh, I was waiting for this one 🍿
🚨 Latombe readies to appeal his legal challenge to the EU-US data transfer agreement
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
EXCLUSIVE: Latombe to appeal EU-US data transfer court challenge | Euractiv
The French MP tells Euractiv he will seek to overturn the lower court's assessment of the validity of transatlantic data flows
www.euractiv.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Oh, I was waiting for this one 🍿
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🚨 Latombe readies to appeal his legal challenge to the EU-US data transfer agreement
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
EXCLUSIVE: Latombe to appeal EU-US data transfer court challenge | Euractiv
The French MP tells Euractiv he will seek to overturn the lower court's assessment of the validity of transatlantic data flows
www.euractiv.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🚨 Latombe readies to appeal his legal challenge to the EU-US data transfer agreement
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
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Criminal complaint against #facialrecognition company #Clearview #AI - noyb.eu/en/criminal-... "scraping billions of photos of Europeans and people around the world on the internet – and selling its facial recognition system to law enforcement and state actors" #gdpr
Criminal complaint against facial recognition company Clearview AI
Clearview AI is known for scraping billions of photos of people around the world on the internet – and selling its facial recognition system to law enforcement and state actors
noyb.eu
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Criminal complaint against #facialrecognition company #Clearview #AI - noyb.eu/en/criminal-... "scraping billions of photos of Europeans and people around the world on the internet – and selling its facial recognition system to law enforcement and state actors" #gdpr
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Germany’s digital ministry is pushing for an extensive pause of the AI Act and some radical ideas for softening the law, such as expanding the research exemptions, removing some high-risk areas, and scrapping fundamental rights impact assessments.
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
German digital ministry asks for significant softening, delays of EU AI Act | MLex | Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation
Germany’s digital ministry is pushing for a one-year delay and major relaxations to the EU AI Act, including lighter obligations for SMEs, removal of the fundamental rights impact assessment, and broa...
www.mlex.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Germany’s digital ministry is pushing for an extensive pause of the AI Act and some radical ideas for softening the law, such as expanding the research exemptions, removing some high-risk areas, and scrapping fundamental rights impact assessments.
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
www.mlex.com/mlex/article...
“Thousands of video-surveillance devices imported from China have spread across Dobrogea, a region bordering Ukraine and forming part of NATO and the European Union’s external frontier.
The cameras were purchased w gov budget or EU funds, through Romania’s NRRP”
www.info-sud-est.ro/at-natos-doo...
The cameras were purchased w gov budget or EU funds, through Romania’s NRRP”
www.info-sud-est.ro/at-natos-doo...
At NATO’s doorstep: Chinese ”eyes” bought with EU money -
Thousands of video-surveillance devices imported from China have spread across Dobrogea, a region bordering Ukraine
www.info-sud-est.ro
October 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“Thousands of video-surveillance devices imported from China have spread across Dobrogea, a region bordering Ukraine and forming part of NATO and the European Union’s external frontier.
The cameras were purchased w gov budget or EU funds, through Romania’s NRRP”
www.info-sud-est.ro/at-natos-doo...
The cameras were purchased w gov budget or EU funds, through Romania’s NRRP”
www.info-sud-est.ro/at-natos-doo...
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One of my favourite law blogs @verfassungsblog.de has published an insightful article written by @daphnek.bsky.social on the status quo of platform data access from the point of view of the Digital Services Act verfassungsblog.de/dsa-platform...
Using the DSA to Study Platforms
verfassungsblog.de
October 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
One of my favourite law blogs @verfassungsblog.de has published an insightful article written by @daphnek.bsky.social on the status quo of platform data access from the point of view of the Digital Services Act verfassungsblog.de/dsa-platform...
“In order to protect fundamental rights, maintain legal certainty, and continue to ensure a high level of protection, any reform should be evidence-based, targeted, transparent, and further the EU’s values” (Christopher Kuner in this new FPF guest post)
#GDPR #Draghi
fpf.org/blog/the-dra...
#GDPR #Draghi
fpf.org/blog/the-dra...
The Draghi Dilemma: The Right and the Wrong Way to Undertake GDPR Reform
There has been much interest in the report on European competitiveness issued in September 2024 by former Italian Prime Minister and European Central Bank President Mario Draghi at the request of Euro...
fpf.org
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
“In order to protect fundamental rights, maintain legal certainty, and continue to ensure a high level of protection, any reform should be evidence-based, targeted, transparent, and further the EU’s values” (Christopher Kuner in this new FPF guest post)
#GDPR #Draghi
fpf.org/blog/the-dra...
#GDPR #Draghi
fpf.org/blog/the-dra...
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're particularly excited for.
12 brand new books we can't wait to read this fall
A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're particularly excited for.
n.pr
September 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
A new Pynchon! A Tim Curry memoir! A 600-page doorstopper from a reclusive writer (not named Thomas Pynchon)! The fall is stacked with big book releases. Here's what we're particularly excited for.
I asked Gemini's image editing mode to transform my headshot in Magritte style. I had a bit of Brussels blues today. Nailed it 🤣
Soon, at a conference close to you 🍏🎩
Soon, at a conference close to you 🍏🎩
August 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I asked Gemini's image editing mode to transform my headshot in Magritte style. I had a bit of Brussels blues today. Nailed it 🤣
Soon, at a conference close to you 🍏🎩
Soon, at a conference close to you 🍏🎩
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"One of the country’s top compliance training companies recorded the conversations of its employees by turning their #Laptops into covert #ListeningDevices while they were at home, in a case that tests the boundaries of workers’ #Privacy." www.afr.com/work-and-car...
Company turned laptops into covert recording devices to monitor WFH
Safetrac says it needed to track work-from-home staff for underperformance, but some employees say the surveillance went too far and police are now investigating.
www.afr.com
August 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
"One of the country’s top compliance training companies recorded the conversations of its employees by turning their #Laptops into covert #ListeningDevices while they were at home, in a case that tests the boundaries of workers’ #Privacy." www.afr.com/work-and-car...
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Brave finds serious security issue in new browser from Perplexity. Let the browser wars begin......er, return!
brave.com/blog/comet-...
brave.com/blog/comet-...
Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet | Brave
The attack we developed shows that traditional Web security assumptions don't hold for agentic AI, and that we need new security and privacy architectures for agentic browsing.
brave.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Brave finds serious security issue in new browser from Perplexity. Let the browser wars begin......er, return!
brave.com/blog/comet-...
brave.com/blog/comet-...
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Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
August 22, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.
There is a wave of #AI bills sweeping Latin America 🌊
We’ve looked at the ones with most traction in 6 key jurisdictions - #Brazil, #Mexico, #Argentina, #Peru, #Chile, #Colombia, and found they have a lot in common! Including proposals for unacceptable risks. Enjoy! #AIlaw
fpf.org/blog/global/...
We’ve looked at the ones with most traction in 6 key jurisdictions - #Brazil, #Mexico, #Argentina, #Peru, #Chile, #Colombia, and found they have a lot in common! Including proposals for unacceptable risks. Enjoy! #AIlaw
fpf.org/blog/global/...
AI Regulation in Latin America: Overview and Emerging Trends in Key Proposals
The widespread adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to impact societies and economies around the world. Policymakers worldwide have begun pushing for normative frameworks to regulate the...
fpf.org
August 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
There is a wave of #AI bills sweeping Latin America 🌊
We’ve looked at the ones with most traction in 6 key jurisdictions - #Brazil, #Mexico, #Argentina, #Peru, #Chile, #Colombia, and found they have a lot in common! Including proposals for unacceptable risks. Enjoy! #AIlaw
fpf.org/blog/global/...
We’ve looked at the ones with most traction in 6 key jurisdictions - #Brazil, #Mexico, #Argentina, #Peru, #Chile, #Colombia, and found they have a lot in common! Including proposals for unacceptable risks. Enjoy! #AIlaw
fpf.org/blog/global/...
👁️🗨️ A bit of an eye-opener: Turns out that for 95% of companies studied, generative AI implementation is falling short. This is according to a report from an MIT research project launched this week, "The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025". 1/
fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...
fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...
MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing
There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.
fortune.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:45 PM
👁️🗨️ A bit of an eye-opener: Turns out that for 95% of companies studied, generative AI implementation is falling short. This is according to a report from an MIT research project launched this week, "The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025". 1/
fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...
fortune.com/2025/08/18/m...
Charlemagne is on a strike against Europe, after last week's pot stir with Europe's Hogwarts, the EUI in Florence 😂 This week he is taking aim at... the sweet European summer vacation - ... www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
Must Europe choose between “strategic autonomy” and August off?
A continent on holiday from geopolitical reality
www.economist.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Charlemagne is on a strike against Europe, after last week's pot stir with Europe's Hogwarts, the EUI in Florence 😂 This week he is taking aim at... the sweet European summer vacation - ... www.economist.com/europe/2025/...